The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-16

wood vineyards with juveline cowboys
from Greenland's icy mountains and
midas coral strands. II he had he
would have hesitated about il. Now.
alas! It is too late. lie is billed for the
Coliseum, and already people from
Lyrsilla and the citron groves of st.
Lawrence County are coming into
town. bringing their dinners and hitch
ing their teams to the fence behind the
Coliseum.
Hard, blue preserved seats, am
told. are being erected around the am
phitheatre. and the Roman schools are
closed. Everything points towards a
great festal day, if that would be the
right kind of day to use in this place.
Is it to be wondered at that wo will
soon see Roman cowboys who ought to
be in school landing here on our coasts
and inquiring at the corner of Broad
way and Chambers street where they
can find an Indian outbreak to quell
May we not look for the Arabian and
Chinese contingent by next spring,
armed to the teeth and asking at an
Intelligence Office when the Deadwood
stage is expected so that they can at
tack it and rob it few times
Yet who but Col. Cody would have
thought of going to the four corners of
the earth with such show Who but
he would have hired the Coliseum after
its long, dull and disastrous season ?
Now. however, that he has opened the
way it will be no boubt the beginning
of an era of prosperity for that great
place of amusement, and the Wild
West Show will be followed very likely
by stereopticon entertainments and a
humorous lecture. In that way Buifa-
10 Bill Is benefactor, for the long and
painful silence that has settled down
for centuries about the galleries and
dim foyers of the Coliseum will be
broken and the thrilling tones of Cur
few shall not ring tonight" will jar
the chinking out of the crumbling
walls that in years past resounded
with the applause of the Roman popu-
lace as Spartacus told the people that
he was not always thus
May it not be that in future years,
now that the Coliseum is to be thrown
open, Joshua Whitcomb will jerk his
old hair trunk across the arena which
once caught the warm blood of Aurelus
Portculls as he slowly fed himself to
fierce Numidian lion, while the band
played Read the Answer in the
Stars Pr
How long will it be before Mr.. Adonis
f. Dixey will deliver milk where once
the fat and wheezy Roman Proctor said
there were no noble men but Romans
and Ohio men?
Can it be that Mrs Langtry or Mrs.
James Brown Potter will some day rent
the Coliseum for whole season and
wear their good clothes where centuries
ago, the gladiator, wearing belt with
frill to II and armed with cast-iron
toadstabbcr, bowed TO the Roman
Prntor and asked him to kindly turn
in few ringtail tigers from Farther
India and he would show the audience
how grown-up tiger looked ms DEP
May not Mr.. Kiralfy in the near
future show the wondering descendants
of Aurelius Rutabaga Trifoliatus how
Babylon looked while in the act of fall
ing and throw upon the walls of the
Coliseum the celebrated handwriting
which nobody but Daniel ever could
make out?
1 can see that in a dramatic way
Buffalo Bill has opened up new route,
besides starting towards America
perfect swarm of amateur cowboys who
desire to cross the plains and rescue
beautiful young lady who is walking
from Julesberg to Walla Walla wearing
perle franchise dress. the front yelled
with Hoboken .rick-rack en- tdbiier,
Pompadour panels of creme A-shaped
faille franchise, en- bou6ant, lined with
oyster velvet and edged with heavy
elephant s-breath silk cord. while in the
v-shaped corsage nestles large bunch
of Marshal O'Neil roses.
My sympath!es are with the people
who live in the West and who resent
this thing. For many years the people
who dwell in the Territor es have been
annually visited by young people from
the older portions of the country or